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Notre Dame cornerback Devin Butler was jailed Saturday after a police officer said the player punched and slammed him to the ground outside a bar, and five teammates were arrested in a separate incident when a trooper found marijuana and a loaded handgun inside their car during a traffic stop.

It was a single snapshot. A tattered flash of color amid acres of toxic grey ash and twisted steel that blanketed Ground Zero of New York’s twin towers on September 11, 2001.

Administrators and law enforcement responding to school threats must quickly evaluate them to determine how to respond.

Police, school employees, security consultants and others say threats to schools are increasing nationwide.

Authorities say a man has confessed after five people were found dead inside a southern Alabama home where a 4-month-old baby also was found alive.

The Ohio attorney general says whoever killed eight members from the same family in Ohio were familiar with the victims, their homes and the surrounding area.

Three men died and another was injured after a boat ran aground and overturned on the Allegheny River, authorities said Saturday.

Police have found two more improvised explosive devices in the woods of Harlan County, Kentucky, a week after the man accused of placing the explosives was killed during a search for them.

Illinois State Police officials say a trooper shot and wounded a teenage boy who was inside a fleeing stolen vehicle on Chicago's South Side.

After two years and 10 months, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus has made it across America.

Authorities in Maine have warned the public about snakes after a large snake skin was found near the Presumpscot River on Saturday.

Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart says pornography led to her captor raping her more than he already did in the nine months she was held.

Billy Smolinski was 31 and in love when he disappeared nearly 12 years ago from his Connecticut home -- a one-story house in Waterbury not far from the farm where his parents had raised him.

Baltimore firefighters battling a fire in a row house found a family dog shielding an 8-month-old child from the flames with his body, according to a report Friday.

Prosecutors have charged three men in the looting of a liquor store during the unrest that followed the police shooting of a black man in Milwaukee.

A man was arrested in the “vicious” murders of at least five people in Alabama on Saturday, authorities said.

A suburban Detroit shopping center was evacuated on Saturday following a smash-and-grab robbery, but police said the scene was later secured.

Lou Pearlman, credited for starting the boy-band craze and launching the careers of the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync, has died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for a massive Ponzi scheme.

Authorities have found the body of a 5-year-old Minnesota girl just hours after they had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend.

A storm that appeared to spawn at least on tornado slammed parts of western Michigan on Saturday, causing extensive damage but no injuries or loss of life, authorities said.